Empirical Verification of Sailer’s Law
On May 14th, a mass shooter killed 10 and wounded two in a grocery store in Buffalo, New York. It was a terrible tragedy, but have you worked out if the shooter’s ancestors were from Sub-Saharan Africa? According to Journalist Steve Sailer, you can guess this just from the information I have given you. In Seve…
Is GDP caused by Verbal Ability or g? A Response to La Griffe du Lion
“Deeply gratified by Mentor’s interest in smart fraction theory, and mindful of his appreciation of its good fit to observation, Prodigy offers a refinement to the theory that, notwithstanding the success of the original, should forever alter the way in which national wealth and IQ are perceived.” – La Griffe du Lion (2004) La Griffe…
Are People With Blue Eyes More Intelligent?
“Having talent is like having blue eyes. You don’t admire a man for the color of his eyes. I admire a man for what he does with his talent.” – Anthony Quinn, Actor Are people with blue eyes more intelligent? Generally, it seems that we hold positive connotations of blue eyes. Memes are created like…
The Economics of Cthulhu: Why The Right Always Loses
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice – Martin Luther King In 2016, Donald Trump told us “We are going to win so much you may even get tired of winning”. Needless to say, he was somewhat optimistic. The writer Curtis Yarvin has explained that the future is almost always more…
Autism, Libertarianism and the Political Fringe
In 2018 the Duke University historian, Nancy Maclean, was asked what motivates the thinking of libertarians and public choice theorists, economists who apply economic models to the study of governments. She said that their apparent lack of empathy and desire to reduce human societies to mathematical models is indicative of autism. Although the professor’s comments…
IQ and Interest Rates
In the summer of 2016 the German 10 year bund fell into a negative interest rate. You now have to pay the German government to lend it money! Such low interest rates are truly historic. Economists and pundits have named many short run factors such as quantitative easing (printing money to buy government debt), higher…
Affirmative Action is damaging Civil Service Competence
An Englishman’s self-assurance is founded on his being a citizen of the best organised state in the world. – Tolstoy 1869 The Civil Service is a bit like a Rolls-Royce—you know it’s the best machine in the world – Rab Butler Conservative Minister In popular culture Britain’s permanent civil service has been imagined as a…
Race, IQ and the Olympics
In my favourite episode of The Peep Show the socially hapless Mark finally makes a new friend – Darly. Of course it’s not as good as it seems when Daryl turns out to be a racist. At dinner, Mark’s black boss is discussing sports when Daryl blurts out “When are people just going to admit…
The Economist’s Case for Reaction: is Democracy Good for Growth?
“More political rights do not have an effect on growth… The first lesson is that democracy is not the key to economic growth” – Robert J. Barro “I’m a monarchist because we don’t have to live like this.” – Curtis Yarvin This blog post is lengthy and divided into three sections, so feel free to…
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